Online security and privacy for children is not exactly a new thing. There have been plenty of cases of so called ‘grooming’ by some very nasty people where kids have been lured to their untimely deaths. All parents should know about this kind of thing, as I said, its not new. Close to home, there have been a couple of murders in Oz where…

I was noodling on t’interweb, as one does, when I stumbled across some YouTube clips from the early 80’s – Haircut 100, Nik Kershaw, Howard Jones.. Then one by Deacon Blue Remember them? This got me a thinking about who I used to have teenage crushes on when I was about 13 So, in no particular order Lorraine McIntosh – Deacon Blue She was…

Its not been easy to sleep recently. I don’t know why particularly – obviously being sick for the best part of 2 weeks didn’t help any, but I’m still not sleeping well. In an effort to understand this and to try to do better, I downloaded an app for my iPhone called Sleep Cycle. Its a clever little thing – it uses the motion…

Yes, I feel like Haley Joel Osment in Sixth Sense, only with less creepy 10-year-old girls under the table with poisoned sick coming out of their mouths. Went out this morning to get presents for Henry’s birthday for when I go back to England next week and also a few other bits and bobs and oh man, the dumb people are out in force…

Well, when I say we, I mean Jay and I. Due to the cost cost of the wedding and flights to have my kids over for Christmas, we didn’t have enough funds or time off to take a honeymoon straight after we got married. So, after some deliberation and an evening checking out hotels and stuff, we’ve finally booked the trip – a long…

I think the world needs a new direction, so I’m going to put myself up for the role of world leader Its pretty simple I think – there are some basic rules I’d like to enforce but apart from that, here’s my mandate 1. Tax – I’ll keep it as low as I possibly can. I’ll do this by not having a vast and…

I was kinda nominated to do this by Lauren ages ago although the full nature of the nomination shall not be mentioned as I have blokey blokeness to be maintained 😉 **hucks a haybale onto my shoulder before going off to raise a barn** (not really, I don’t think the City of Perth would be too happy with either hay bales or barns) So…

I forgot to post this – a few weeks ago I heard a plane buzzing outside and saw a plane doing skywriting I have no idea what it was writing, but there was a helicopter buzzing close by – filming perhaps? Very cool – not seen that kind of thing for ages 🙂

I mentioned this a few weeks ago when I got disillusioned with a few groups on Flickr. Why are internet forums so hostile? I was reading some scientific journals the other day and was somewhat surprised by the level of hostility there too. I guess after reading the Climategate emails and the resulting fallout I should have expected it, but really, there’s no excuse…

Dear Tia You are a sweet little pooch, ever trotting around the house following one of us about with your little tail wagging happily, scampering around the garden and sleeping curled up in the sun resting your chin on a shoe. Your fussing over the guinea pigs and mothering them when the girls bring them in to play with them is adorable and your…